Vision-Language-Action papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Vision-Language-Action went from 257 papers in 2023 to 708 in 2026, roughly 2.8x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Vision-Language-Action work: 640 papers from 2023 to 2026, 39% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 21 in 2023 to 135 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Robotics and Embodied AI, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Humanoid Control, is up 3.8x versus 2.8x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Dual-Domain Vision Transformer with Spectral Positional Bias
• ICML 2026FOCA: Future-Oriented Conditioning for Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Adaptation
• ICLR 2026Curvature-Guided Task Synergy for Skeleton based Temporal Action Segmentation
• CVPR 2026ActAvatar Temporally-Aware Precise Action Control for Talking Avatars
• NeurIPS 2025Doodle to Detect: A Goofy but Powerful Approach to Skeleton-based Hand Gesture Recognition
• ICML 2025Feasible Action Search for Bandit Linear Programs via Thompson Sampling
• ICLR 2025Action Sequence Augmentation for Action Anticipation
• CVPR 2025Active Event-based Stereo Vision
• NeurIPS 2024GAIA: Rethinking Action Quality Assessment for AI-Generated Videos
• ICML 2024Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation
• ICLR 2024Matrix Manifold Neural Networks++
• CVPR 2024End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Action Localisation with Video Transformers
• NeurIPS 2023Activity Grammars for Temporal Action Segmentation
• ICML 2023Algorithmic Collective Action in Machine Learning
• ICLR 2023A Theoretical Understanding of Shallow Vision Transformers: Learning, Generalization, and Sample Complexity
• CVPR 20233Mformer: Multi-Order Multi-Mode Transformer for Skeletal Action Recognition
• NeurIPS 2026A Statistical Framework for Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives
• ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
• ICLR 2026EAST: Early Action Prediction Sampling Strategy with Token Masking
• CVPR 2026DarkShake-DVS Event-based Human Action Recognition under Low-light and Shaking Camera

All Vision-Language-Action papers

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51. NeurIPS 2024Linearly Decomposing and Recomposing Vision Transformers for Diverse-Scale Models
52. NeurIPS 2024Localizing Memorization in SSL Vision Encoders
53. NeurIPS 2024LookHere: Vision Transformers with Directed Attention Generalize and Extrapolate
54. NeurIPS 2024LucidAction: A Hierarchical and Multi-model Dataset for Comprehensive Action Quality Assessment
55. NeurIPS 2024Matryoshka Query Transformer for Large Vision-Language Models
56. NeurIPS 2024MemVLT: Vision-Language Tracking with Adaptive Memory-based Prompts
57. NeurIPS 2024Micro-Bench: A Microscopy Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding
58. NeurIPS 2024MSPE: Multi-Scale Patch Embedding Prompts Vision Transformers to Any Resolution
59. NeurIPS 2024Multi-Object Hallucination in Vision Language Models
60. NeurIPS 2024NaturalBench: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Natural Adversarial Samples
61. NeurIPS 2024Not Just Object, But State: Compositional Incremental Learning without Forgetting
62. NeurIPS 2024Offline Reinforcement Learning with OOD State Correction and OOD Action Suppression
63. NeurIPS 2024OmniJARVIS: Unified Vision-Language-Action Tokenization Enables Open-World Instruction Following Agents
64. NeurIPS 2024On the Surprising Effectiveness of Attention Transfer for Vision Transformers
65. NeurIPS 2024On the Use of Anchoring for Training Vision Models
66. NeurIPS 2024Online Learning with Sublinear Best-Action Queries
67. NeurIPS 2024OnlineTAS: An Online Baseline for Temporal Action Segmentation
68. NeurIPS 2024OPEL: Optimal Transport Guided ProcedurE Learning
69. NeurIPS 2024Private Attribute Inference from Images with Vision-Language Models
70. NeurIPS 2024Q-VLM: Post-training Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models
71. NeurIPS 2024QGFN: Controllable Greediness with Action Values
72. NeurIPS 2024QT-ViT: Improving Linear Attention in ViT with Quadratic Taylor Expansion
73. NeurIPS 2024QuadMamba: Learning Quadtree-based Selective Scan for Visual State Space Model
74. NeurIPS 2024RaVL: Discovering and Mitigating Spurious Correlations in Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models
75. NeurIPS 2024Recovering Complete Actions for Cross-dataset Skeleton Action Recognition
76. NeurIPS 2024Recurrent neural network dynamical systems for biological vision
77. NeurIPS 2024Reinforcing LLM Agents via Policy Optimization with Action Decomposition
78. NeurIPS 2024Revisiting the Integration of Convolution and Attention for Vision Backbone
79. NeurIPS 2024Right this way: Can VLMs Guide Us to See More to Answer Questions?
80. NeurIPS 2024RoboMamba: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Reasoning and Manipulation
81. NeurIPS 2024ScaleKD: Strong Vision Transformers Could Be Excellent Teachers
82. NeurIPS 2024Scaling White-Box Transformers for Vision
83. NeurIPS 2024Shadowcast: Stealthy Data Poisoning Attacks Against Vision-Language Models
84. NeurIPS 2024Slicing Vision Transformer for Flexible Inference
85. NeurIPS 2024SlimSAM: 0.1% Data Makes Segment Anything Slim
86. NeurIPS 2024SUGARCREPE++ Dataset: Vision-Language Model Sensitivity to Semantic and Lexical Alterations
87. NeurIPS 2024Taming "data-hungry" reinforcement learning? Stability in continuous state-action spaces
88. NeurIPS 2024Temporally Consistent Atmospheric Turbulence Mitigation with Neural Representations
89. NeurIPS 2024Text-Infused Attention and Foreground-Aware Modeling for Zero-Shot Temporal Action Detection
90. NeurIPS 2024TrAct: Making First-layer Pre-Activations Trainable
91. NeurIPS 2024Transformer Doctor: Diagnosing and Treating Vision Transformers
92. NeurIPS 2024Unveil Benign Overfitting for Transformer in Vision: Training Dynamics, Convergence, and Generalization
93. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models
94. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Hidden: Online Vectorized HD Map Construction with Clip-Level Token Interaction and Propagation
95. NeurIPS 2024Unveiling the Tapestry of Consistency in Large Vision-Language Models
96. NeurIPS 2024V-PETL Bench: A Unified Visual Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning Benchmark
97. NeurIPS 2024VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language Models
98. NeurIPS 2024Vision Foundation Model Enables Generalizable Object Pose Estimation
99. NeurIPS 2024Vision Mamba Mender
100. NeurIPS 2024Vision Transformer Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Benchmark and Insights

FAQ

How many Vision-Language-Action papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

1,639 in total: 257 in 2023, 329 in 2024, 345 in 2025, 708 in 2026.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 204 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 108 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 113 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 64 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 126 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 33 the year before.

How many Vision-Language-Action papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 265 Vision-Language-Action papers, versus 140 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Vision-Language-Action papers?

CVPR, with 640 papers from 2023 to 2026.